The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-10
HERE AND THERE.

3he newest toy is a locomotive that explodes,
A gourd in Barron county, Kentucky, holds
1871 gallons.
In the Savannah GA markets shad are sell
ing at 81 each.
A Yankton four-mill occasionally ships flour
to Ohio points.
Farmers on the Pacific coast are busily en-
gagged in blowing.
Over 500 per week is paid out at Deadwood
for laundry work.
In Boston 1,l93 woemen registered for The
municipal election.
The wooden mill at Yankton is paying %
cents per pound for wool.
Hurt. Korn Is the somewhat ominous namo
Of a New York shoemaker.
New York city's election expenses last
month amounted to s24,S0O.
Antoine Gokey died at Renfro, Canada, one
day last week, aged 1903 years.
In Dayton, Oregon, potatoes sell for S25 pei
ton, and they are scarce at that.
Over il,732 votes were cast in Wyoming at
the last election; l2,Sll in 1884.
In Baskerville, Pa. two merchants bought 30
600 pounds of dried apples this season.
A juvenile company of bu~ll-lighters is doing
q successful business in %Jalisco, Mexico.
it costs only 81 G day to furnish the power
for the electrical railroad at Toronto Canada.
A COW in Oven county, Kentucky, ~ years
old, has given birth to four calves in three
years.
Comotoloccoiah Is the longest word in the
Seminole language. 1t means pindar, n ground
nut.
San Francisco imported 81, 900 tons Of coal
from British Columbia during the past six
months.
Tennesse's peanut crop this year is worth
500. 600. The average yield per acre is forty
two bushels.
A lady resident of Vallejo, Cal, lost $780,
600 by the recent failure Of Il broker in San
Francisco, Cal.
Advertisements for wives are inserted Ia
western papers by miners at Red Gulch,
Indian Territory.
A letter addressed to Santa Claus, Clarion,
Pa, was recently dropped into a postoillce-
box at that place.
Near Salisbury, Mass, the other day, a fox,
after an hours fight, succeeded in whipping
Il 1-year-old bulldog.
1t has been discovered that the weight OF
cotton has been increased by dishonest south
ern dealers by sailing 1t.
The territorial law of Washington territory
prohibiting the smoking Of opium has been
.eclared unconstitutional.
The great forest trees in Prospect park,
Brooklyn, are rapidly being cut down, by order
Of the park commissioners.
The postoflce at Reading, n. Y, was recent
ly abolished because no one could be found
who would act as postmaster.
A single sale of wheat was recently made
in Tehama county, California, the money pay
ment involved being S2l!j, 900
A resident of Santa Rosa, Cal, has con-
tracted to furnish 9~,O00,0OJ basalt paving
blocks to the city of San Francisco.
A citizen at Athens, Ga, recently paid his
subscription to the local paper fifty years in adj
vance. There are but few like him.
Near Georgetown, Cal, recently, was killed
a mountain lion that measured nine feet in
length and weighed two hundred pounds.
In Oh City, Pa, the other day, n lad found u
pocketbook containing, $500, and on giving Is
to the owner received a reward OF D cents.
A bounty of $40 each Is paid for all bears
killed in Essex county, New York. Last week
the treasurer paid out over $3.50 In bountics'
huge iron reservoir is being built at a re-
mote spo: In the outer harbor of Amsterdam
for the storage OF petroleum. II will be nearly
thirty-three feet in diameter and Of the same
depth, and is calculated TO hold 1.i4J,OOV
gallons.
Last summer Roswell Brown, of Mystic,
Conn, put some watermelons In his cellar,
and one of them was covered up and forgot
ten. just before Thanksgiving IL was discov'
cred in good condition, and the Browns ate IL
on Thanksgiving day and enjoyed it.
Boston's chief literary club is the one cali
ed st. Bodolph. 1t was organized In 1881,
with Francis Parkman, tho historian, as
president. lie served until one year ago, when
he resigned, and was succeeded by Gen.
Francis Walker. The entrance fee Is small,
but 1t is qulte an exclusive institution.
Henry Wood, who was COUNTY treasurer OF
Carroll county, Arkansas, and ; now serving
q Ave years Imprisonment for stealing 5000
Of the county funds, has made application for
q new trial, his defense being that he kept the
money in an old boot hidden in n hay loft and
that the boot was stolen while he was away
from home.
Bertha Cook was attending to an old woman
who had been afflicted for years with paraly-
,is, at Chientor, Va. one day last week, when
her clothes caught fire from the stove. The
Invalid, seeing that Bertha was too scared to
help herself, jumped out Of bed, wrapped the
yirl |in n blanket. subdued the fire. and tainted